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<title>linux-stable.git/drivers/block/loop.c, branch linux-2.6.38.y</title>
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<title>loop: handle on-demand devices correctly</title>
<updated>2011-06-03T01:34:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Namhyung Kim</name>
<email>namhyung@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-05-24T14:48:55+00:00</published>
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commit a1c15c59feee36267c43142a41152fbf7402afb6 upstream.

When finding or allocating a loop device, loop_probe() did not take
partition numbers into account so that it can result to a different
device. Consider following example:

$ sudo modprobe loop max_part=15
$ ls -l /dev/loop*
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7,   0 2011-05-24 22:16 /dev/loop0
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7,  16 2011-05-24 22:16 /dev/loop1
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7,  32 2011-05-24 22:16 /dev/loop2
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7,  48 2011-05-24 22:16 /dev/loop3
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7,  64 2011-05-24 22:16 /dev/loop4
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7,  80 2011-05-24 22:16 /dev/loop5
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7,  96 2011-05-24 22:16 /dev/loop6
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 112 2011-05-24 22:16 /dev/loop7
$ sudo mknod /dev/loop8 b 7 128
$ sudo losetup /dev/loop8 ~/temp/disk-with-3-parts.img
$ sudo losetup -a
/dev/loop128: [0805]:278201 (/home/namhyung/temp/disk-with-3-parts.img)
$ ls -l /dev/loop*
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7,    0 2011-05-24 22:16 /dev/loop0
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7,   16 2011-05-24 22:16 /dev/loop1
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 2048 2011-05-24 22:18 /dev/loop128
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 2049 2011-05-24 22:18 /dev/loop128p1
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 2050 2011-05-24 22:18 /dev/loop128p2
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 2051 2011-05-24 22:18 /dev/loop128p3
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7,   32 2011-05-24 22:16 /dev/loop2
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7,   48 2011-05-24 22:16 /dev/loop3
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7,   64 2011-05-24 22:16 /dev/loop4
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7,   80 2011-05-24 22:16 /dev/loop5
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7,   96 2011-05-24 22:16 /dev/loop6
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7,  112 2011-05-24 22:16 /dev/loop7
brw-r--r-- 1 root root 7,  128 2011-05-24 22:17 /dev/loop8

After this patch, /dev/loop8 - instead of /dev/loop128 - was
accessed correctly.

In addition, 'range' passed to blk_register_region() should
include all range of dev_t that LOOP_MAJOR can address. It does
not need to be limited by partition numbers unless 'max_loop'
param was specified.

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Laurent Vivier &lt;Laurent.Vivier@bull.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jaxboe@fusionio.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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commit a1c15c59feee36267c43142a41152fbf7402afb6 upstream.

When finding or allocating a loop device, loop_probe() did not take
partition numbers into account so that it can result to a different
device. Consider following example:

$ sudo modprobe loop max_part=15
$ ls -l /dev/loop*
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7,   0 2011-05-24 22:16 /dev/loop0
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7,  16 2011-05-24 22:16 /dev/loop1
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7,  32 2011-05-24 22:16 /dev/loop2
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7,  48 2011-05-24 22:16 /dev/loop3
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7,  64 2011-05-24 22:16 /dev/loop4
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7,  80 2011-05-24 22:16 /dev/loop5
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7,  96 2011-05-24 22:16 /dev/loop6
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 112 2011-05-24 22:16 /dev/loop7
$ sudo mknod /dev/loop8 b 7 128
$ sudo losetup /dev/loop8 ~/temp/disk-with-3-parts.img
$ sudo losetup -a
/dev/loop128: [0805]:278201 (/home/namhyung/temp/disk-with-3-parts.img)
$ ls -l /dev/loop*
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7,    0 2011-05-24 22:16 /dev/loop0
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7,   16 2011-05-24 22:16 /dev/loop1
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 2048 2011-05-24 22:18 /dev/loop128
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 2049 2011-05-24 22:18 /dev/loop128p1
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 2050 2011-05-24 22:18 /dev/loop128p2
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 2051 2011-05-24 22:18 /dev/loop128p3
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7,   32 2011-05-24 22:16 /dev/loop2
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7,   48 2011-05-24 22:16 /dev/loop3
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7,   64 2011-05-24 22:16 /dev/loop4
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7,   80 2011-05-24 22:16 /dev/loop5
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7,   96 2011-05-24 22:16 /dev/loop6
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7,  112 2011-05-24 22:16 /dev/loop7
brw-r--r-- 1 root root 7,  128 2011-05-24 22:17 /dev/loop8

After this patch, /dev/loop8 - instead of /dev/loop128 - was
accessed correctly.

In addition, 'range' passed to blk_register_region() should
include all range of dev_t that LOOP_MAJOR can address. It does
not need to be limited by partition numbers unless 'max_loop'
param was specified.

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Laurent Vivier &lt;Laurent.Vivier@bull.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jaxboe@fusionio.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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<entry>
<title>loop: limit 'max_part' module param to DISK_MAX_PARTS</title>
<updated>2011-06-03T01:34:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Namhyung Kim</name>
<email>namhyung@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-05-24T14:48:54+00:00</published>
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commit 78f4bb367fd147a0e7e3998ba6e47109999d8814 upstream.

The 'max_part' parameter controls the number of maximum partition
a loop block device can have. However if a user specifies very
large value it would exceed the limitation of device minor number
and can cause a kernel panic (or, at least, produce invalid
device nodes in some cases).

On my desktop system, following command kills the kernel. On qemu,
it triggers similar oops but the kernel was alive:

$ sudo modprobe loop max_part0000
 ------------[ cut here ]------------
 kernel BUG at /media/Linux_Data/project/linux/fs/sysfs/group.c:65!
 invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP
 last sysfs file:
 CPU 0
 Modules linked in: loop(+)

 Pid: 43, comm: insmod Tainted: G        W   2.6.39-qemu+ #155 Bochs Bochs
 RIP: 0010:[&lt;ffffffff8113ce61&gt;]  [&lt;ffffffff8113ce61&gt;] internal_create_group=
+0x2a/0x170
 RSP: 0018:ffff880007b3fde8  EFLAGS: 00000246
 RAX: 00000000ffffffef RBX: ffff880007b3d878 RCX: 00000000000007b4
 RDX: ffffffff8152da50 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff880007b3d878
 RBP: ffff880007b3fe38 R08: ffff880007b3fde8 R09: 0000000000000000
 R10: ffff88000783b4a8 R11: ffff880007b3d878 R12: ffffffff8152da50
 R13: ffff880007b3d868 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffff880007b3d800
 FS:  0000000002137880(0063) GS:ffff880007c00000(0000) knlGS:00000000000000=
00
 CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
 CR2: 0000000000422680 CR3: 0000000007b50000 CR4: 00000000000006b0
 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 0000000000000000 DR7: 0000000000000000
 Process insmod (pid: 43, threadinfo ffff880007b3e000, task ffff880007afb9c=
0)
 Stack:
  ffff880007b3fe58 ffffffff811e66dd ffff880007b3fe58 ffffffff811e570b
  0000000000000010 ffff880007b3d800 ffff880007a7b390 ffff880007b3d868
  0000000000400920 ffff880007b3d800 ffff880007b3fe48 ffffffff8113cfc8
 Call Trace:
  [&lt;ffffffff811e66dd&gt;] ? device_add+0x4bc/0x5af
  [&lt;ffffffff811e570b&gt;] ? dev_set_name+0x3c/0x3e
  [&lt;ffffffff8113cfc8&gt;] sysfs_create_group+0xe/0x12
  [&lt;ffffffff810b420e&gt;] blk_trace_init_sysfs+0x14/0x16
  [&lt;ffffffff8116a090&gt;] blk_register_queue+0x47/0xf7
  [&lt;ffffffff8116f527&gt;] add_disk+0xdf/0x290
  [&lt;ffffffffa00060eb&gt;] loop_init+0xeb/0x1b8 [loop]
  [&lt;ffffffffa0006000&gt;] ? 0xffffffffa0005fff
  [&lt;ffffffff8100020a&gt;] do_one_initcall+0x7a/0x12e
  [&lt;ffffffff81096804&gt;] sys_init_module+0x9c/0x1e0
  [&lt;ffffffff813329bb&gt;] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
 Code: c3 55 48 89 e5 41 57 41 56 41 89 f6 41 55 41 54 49 89 d4 53 48 89 fb=
 48 83 ec 28 48 85 ff 74 0b 85 f6 75 0b 48 83 7f 30 00 75 14 &lt;0f&gt; 0b eb fe =
48 83 7f 30 00 b9 ea ff ff ff 0f 84 18 01 00 00 49
 RIP  [&lt;ffffffff8113ce61&gt;] internal_create_group+0x2a/0x170
  RSP &lt;ffff880007b3fde8&gt;
 ---[ end trace a123eb592043acad ]---

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Laurent Vivier &lt;Laurent.Vivier@bull.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jaxboe@fusionio.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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commit 78f4bb367fd147a0e7e3998ba6e47109999d8814 upstream.

The 'max_part' parameter controls the number of maximum partition
a loop block device can have. However if a user specifies very
large value it would exceed the limitation of device minor number
and can cause a kernel panic (or, at least, produce invalid
device nodes in some cases).

On my desktop system, following command kills the kernel. On qemu,
it triggers similar oops but the kernel was alive:

$ sudo modprobe loop max_part0000
 ------------[ cut here ]------------
 kernel BUG at /media/Linux_Data/project/linux/fs/sysfs/group.c:65!
 invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP
 last sysfs file:
 CPU 0
 Modules linked in: loop(+)

 Pid: 43, comm: insmod Tainted: G        W   2.6.39-qemu+ #155 Bochs Bochs
 RIP: 0010:[&lt;ffffffff8113ce61&gt;]  [&lt;ffffffff8113ce61&gt;] internal_create_group=
+0x2a/0x170
 RSP: 0018:ffff880007b3fde8  EFLAGS: 00000246
 RAX: 00000000ffffffef RBX: ffff880007b3d878 RCX: 00000000000007b4
 RDX: ffffffff8152da50 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff880007b3d878
 RBP: ffff880007b3fe38 R08: ffff880007b3fde8 R09: 0000000000000000
 R10: ffff88000783b4a8 R11: ffff880007b3d878 R12: ffffffff8152da50
 R13: ffff880007b3d868 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffff880007b3d800
 FS:  0000000002137880(0063) GS:ffff880007c00000(0000) knlGS:00000000000000=
00
 CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
 CR2: 0000000000422680 CR3: 0000000007b50000 CR4: 00000000000006b0
 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 0000000000000000 DR7: 0000000000000000
 Process insmod (pid: 43, threadinfo ffff880007b3e000, task ffff880007afb9c=
0)
 Stack:
  ffff880007b3fe58 ffffffff811e66dd ffff880007b3fe58 ffffffff811e570b
  0000000000000010 ffff880007b3d800 ffff880007a7b390 ffff880007b3d868
  0000000000400920 ffff880007b3d800 ffff880007b3fe48 ffffffff8113cfc8
 Call Trace:
  [&lt;ffffffff811e66dd&gt;] ? device_add+0x4bc/0x5af
  [&lt;ffffffff811e570b&gt;] ? dev_set_name+0x3c/0x3e
  [&lt;ffffffff8113cfc8&gt;] sysfs_create_group+0xe/0x12
  [&lt;ffffffff810b420e&gt;] blk_trace_init_sysfs+0x14/0x16
  [&lt;ffffffff8116a090&gt;] blk_register_queue+0x47/0xf7
  [&lt;ffffffff8116f527&gt;] add_disk+0xdf/0x290
  [&lt;ffffffffa00060eb&gt;] loop_init+0xeb/0x1b8 [loop]
  [&lt;ffffffffa0006000&gt;] ? 0xffffffffa0005fff
  [&lt;ffffffff8100020a&gt;] do_one_initcall+0x7a/0x12e
  [&lt;ffffffff81096804&gt;] sys_init_module+0x9c/0x1e0
  [&lt;ffffffff813329bb&gt;] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
 Code: c3 55 48 89 e5 41 57 41 56 41 89 f6 41 55 41 54 49 89 d4 53 48 89 fb=
 48 83 ec 28 48 85 ff 74 0b 85 f6 75 0b 48 83 7f 30 00 75 14 &lt;0f&gt; 0b eb fe =
48 83 7f 30 00 b9 ea ff ff ff 0f 84 18 01 00 00 49
 RIP  [&lt;ffffffff8113ce61&gt;] internal_create_group+0x2a/0x170
  RSP &lt;ffff880007b3fde8&gt;
 ---[ end trace a123eb592043acad ]---

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Laurent Vivier &lt;Laurent.Vivier@bull.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jaxboe@fusionio.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>block: kill loop_mutex</title>
<updated>2011-03-03T16:53:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Petr Uzel</name>
<email>petr.uzel@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2011-03-03T16:48:50+00:00</published>
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Following steps lead to deadlock in kernel:

dd if=/dev/zero of=img bs=512 count=1000
losetup -f img
mkfs.ext2 /dev/loop0
mount -t ext2 -o loop /dev/loop0 mnt
umount mnt/

Stacktrace:
[&lt;c102ec04&gt;] irq_exit+0x36/0x59
[&lt;c101502c&gt;] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x6b/0x75
[&lt;c127f639&gt;] apic_timer_interrupt+0x31/0x38
[&lt;c101df88&gt;] mutex_spin_on_owner+0x54/0x5b
[&lt;fe2250e9&gt;] lo_release+0x12/0x67 [loop]
[&lt;c10c4eae&gt;] __blkdev_put+0x7c/0x10c
[&lt;c10a4da5&gt;] fput+0xd5/0x1aa
[&lt;fe2250cf&gt;] loop_clr_fd+0x1a9/0x1b1 [loop]
[&lt;fe225110&gt;] lo_release+0x39/0x67 [loop]
[&lt;c10c4eae&gt;] __blkdev_put+0x7c/0x10c
[&lt;c10a59d9&gt;] deactivate_locked_super+0x17/0x36
[&lt;c10b6f37&gt;] sys_umount+0x27e/0x2a5
[&lt;c10b6f69&gt;] sys_oldumount+0xb/0xe
[&lt;c1002897&gt;] sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x26
[&lt;ffffffff&gt;] 0xffffffff

Regression since 2a48fc0ab24241755dc9, which introduced the private
loop_mutex as part of the BKL removal process.

As per [1], the mutex can be safely removed.

[1] http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/linux/kernel/1341930

Addresses: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=669394
Addresses: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29172

Signed-off-by: Petr Uzel &lt;petr.uzel@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Nikanth Karthikesan &lt;knikanth@suse.de&gt;
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jaxboe@fusionio.com&gt;
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Following steps lead to deadlock in kernel:

dd if=/dev/zero of=img bs=512 count=1000
losetup -f img
mkfs.ext2 /dev/loop0
mount -t ext2 -o loop /dev/loop0 mnt
umount mnt/

Stacktrace:
[&lt;c102ec04&gt;] irq_exit+0x36/0x59
[&lt;c101502c&gt;] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x6b/0x75
[&lt;c127f639&gt;] apic_timer_interrupt+0x31/0x38
[&lt;c101df88&gt;] mutex_spin_on_owner+0x54/0x5b
[&lt;fe2250e9&gt;] lo_release+0x12/0x67 [loop]
[&lt;c10c4eae&gt;] __blkdev_put+0x7c/0x10c
[&lt;c10a4da5&gt;] fput+0xd5/0x1aa
[&lt;fe2250cf&gt;] loop_clr_fd+0x1a9/0x1b1 [loop]
[&lt;fe225110&gt;] lo_release+0x39/0x67 [loop]
[&lt;c10c4eae&gt;] __blkdev_put+0x7c/0x10c
[&lt;c10a59d9&gt;] deactivate_locked_super+0x17/0x36
[&lt;c10b6f37&gt;] sys_umount+0x27e/0x2a5
[&lt;c10b6f69&gt;] sys_oldumount+0xb/0xe
[&lt;c1002897&gt;] sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x26
[&lt;ffffffff&gt;] 0xffffffff

Regression since 2a48fc0ab24241755dc9, which introduced the private
loop_mutex as part of the BKL removal process.

As per [1], the mutex can be safely removed.

[1] http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/linux/kernel/1341930

Addresses: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=669394
Addresses: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29172

Signed-off-by: Petr Uzel &lt;petr.uzel@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Nikanth Karthikesan &lt;knikanth@suse.de&gt;
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jaxboe@fusionio.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>loop: queue_lock NULL pointer derefence in blk_throtl_exit</title>
<updated>2011-01-19T15:25:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sergey Senozhatsky</name>
<email>sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-01-19T15:25:02+00:00</published>
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Performing
$ sudo mount -o loop -o umask=0 /dev/sdb1 /mnt/
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/loop0,
       missing codepage or helper program, or other error
       In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
       dmesg | tail  or so

$ sudo modprobe -r loop

results in oops:

 BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000004
 IP: [&lt;ffffffff812479d4&gt;] do_raw_spin_lock+0x14/0x122
 Process modprobe (pid: 6189, threadinfo ffff88009a898000, task ffff880154a88000)
 Call Trace:
  [&lt;ffffffff81486788&gt;] _raw_spin_lock_irq+0x4a/0x51
  [&lt;ffffffff8123404b&gt;] ? blk_throtl_exit+0x3b/0xa0
  [&lt;ffffffff8105b120&gt;] ? cancel_delayed_work_sync+0xd/0xf
  [&lt;ffffffff8123404b&gt;] blk_throtl_exit+0x3b/0xa0
  [&lt;ffffffff81229bc8&gt;] blk_release_queue+0x21/0x65
  [&lt;ffffffff8123bb06&gt;] kobject_release+0x51/0x66
  [&lt;ffffffff8123bab5&gt;] ? kobject_release+0x0/0x66
  [&lt;ffffffff8123ce1e&gt;] kref_put+0x43/0x4d
  [&lt;ffffffff8123ba27&gt;] kobject_put+0x47/0x4b
  [&lt;ffffffff8122717c&gt;] blk_cleanup_queue+0x56/0x5b
  [&lt;ffffffffa01c3824&gt;] loop_exit+0x68/0x844 [loop]
  [&lt;ffffffff8107cccc&gt;] sys_delete_module+0x1e8/0x25b
  [&lt;ffffffff814864c9&gt;] ? trace_hardirqs_on_thunk+0x3a/0x3f
  [&lt;ffffffff81002112&gt;] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

because of an attempt to acquire NULL queue_lock.
I added the same lines as in blk_queue_make_request -
index 44e18c0..49e6a54 100644`fall back to embedded per-queue lock'.

Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jaxboe@fusionio.com&gt;
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Performing
$ sudo mount -o loop -o umask=0 /dev/sdb1 /mnt/
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/loop0,
       missing codepage or helper program, or other error
       In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
       dmesg | tail  or so

$ sudo modprobe -r loop

results in oops:

 BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000004
 IP: [&lt;ffffffff812479d4&gt;] do_raw_spin_lock+0x14/0x122
 Process modprobe (pid: 6189, threadinfo ffff88009a898000, task ffff880154a88000)
 Call Trace:
  [&lt;ffffffff81486788&gt;] _raw_spin_lock_irq+0x4a/0x51
  [&lt;ffffffff8123404b&gt;] ? blk_throtl_exit+0x3b/0xa0
  [&lt;ffffffff8105b120&gt;] ? cancel_delayed_work_sync+0xd/0xf
  [&lt;ffffffff8123404b&gt;] blk_throtl_exit+0x3b/0xa0
  [&lt;ffffffff81229bc8&gt;] blk_release_queue+0x21/0x65
  [&lt;ffffffff8123bb06&gt;] kobject_release+0x51/0x66
  [&lt;ffffffff8123bab5&gt;] ? kobject_release+0x0/0x66
  [&lt;ffffffff8123ce1e&gt;] kref_put+0x43/0x4d
  [&lt;ffffffff8123ba27&gt;] kobject_put+0x47/0x4b
  [&lt;ffffffff8122717c&gt;] blk_cleanup_queue+0x56/0x5b
  [&lt;ffffffffa01c3824&gt;] loop_exit+0x68/0x844 [loop]
  [&lt;ffffffff8107cccc&gt;] sys_delete_module+0x1e8/0x25b
  [&lt;ffffffff814864c9&gt;] ? trace_hardirqs_on_thunk+0x3a/0x3f
  [&lt;ffffffff81002112&gt;] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

because of an attempt to acquire NULL queue_lock.
I added the same lines as in blk_queue_make_request -
index 44e18c0..49e6a54 100644`fall back to embedded per-queue lock'.

Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jaxboe@fusionio.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Fix compile warnings due to missing removal of a 'ret' variable</title>
<updated>2010-12-20T08:15:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jens Axboe</name>
<email>jaxboe@fusionio.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-12-20T08:15:19+00:00</published>
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Commit a8adbe3 forgot to remove the return variable, kill it.

drivers/block/loop.c: In function 'lo_splice_actor':
drivers/block/loop.c:398: warning: unused variable 'ret'
[...]
fs/nfsd/vfs.c: In function 'nfsd_splice_actor':
fs/nfsd/vfs.c:848: warning: unused variable 'ret'

Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jaxboe@fusionio.com&gt;
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Commit a8adbe3 forgot to remove the return variable, kill it.

drivers/block/loop.c: In function 'lo_splice_actor':
drivers/block/loop.c:398: warning: unused variable 'ret'
[...]
fs/nfsd/vfs.c: In function 'nfsd_splice_actor':
fs/nfsd/vfs.c:848: warning: unused variable 'ret'

Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jaxboe@fusionio.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>fs/splice: Pull buf-&gt;ops-&gt;confirm() from splice_from_pipe actors</title>
<updated>2010-12-17T07:56:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michał Mirosław</name>
<email>mirq-linux@rere.qmqm.pl</email>
</author>
<published>2010-12-17T07:56:44+00:00</published>
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This patch pulls calls to buf-&gt;ops-&gt;confirm() from all actors passed
(also indirectly) to splice_from_pipe_feed().

Is avoiding the call to buf-&gt;ops-&gt;confirm() while splice()ing to
/dev/null is an intentional optimization? No other user does that
and this will remove this special case.

Against current linux.git 6313e3c21743cc88bb5bd8aa72948ee1e83937b6.

Signed-off-by: Michał Mirosław &lt;mirq-linux@rere.qmqm.pl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jaxboe@fusionio.com&gt;
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This patch pulls calls to buf-&gt;ops-&gt;confirm() from all actors passed
(also indirectly) to splice_from_pipe_feed().

Is avoiding the call to buf-&gt;ops-&gt;confirm() while splice()ing to
/dev/null is an intentional optimization? No other user does that
and this will remove this special case.

Against current linux.git 6313e3c21743cc88bb5bd8aa72948ee1e83937b6.

Signed-off-by: Michał Mirosław &lt;mirq-linux@rere.qmqm.pl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jaxboe@fusionio.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>block: remove REQ_HARDBARRIER</title>
<updated>2010-11-10T13:54:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2010-11-10T13:54:09+00:00</published>
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REQ_HARDBARRIER is dead now, so remove the leftovers.  What's left
at this point is:

 - various checks inside the block layer.
 - sanity checks in bio based drivers.
 - now unused bio_empty_barrier helper.
 - Xen blockfront use of BLKIF_OP_WRITE_BARRIER - it's dead for a while,
   but Xen really needs to sort out it's barrier situaton.
 - setting of ordered tags in uas - dead code copied from old scsi
   drivers.
 - scsi different retry for barriers - it's dead and should have been
   removed when flushes were converted to FS requests.
 - blktrace handling of barriers - removed.  Someone who knows blktrace
   better should add support for REQ_FLUSH and REQ_FUA, though.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jaxboe@fusionio.com&gt;
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REQ_HARDBARRIER is dead now, so remove the leftovers.  What's left
at this point is:

 - various checks inside the block layer.
 - sanity checks in bio based drivers.
 - now unused bio_empty_barrier helper.
 - Xen blockfront use of BLKIF_OP_WRITE_BARRIER - it's dead for a while,
   but Xen really needs to sort out it's barrier situaton.
 - setting of ordered tags in uas - dead code copied from old scsi
   drivers.
 - scsi different retry for barriers - it's dead and should have been
   removed when flushes were converted to FS requests.
 - blktrace handling of barriers - removed.  Someone who knows blktrace
   better should add support for REQ_FLUSH and REQ_FUA, though.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jaxboe@fusionio.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>loop: Properly clear sysfs in autoclear mode</title>
<updated>2010-10-28T01:51:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Milan Broz</name>
<email>mbroz@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-10-28T01:51:30+00:00</published>
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In autoclear mode bdev is NULL but the sysfs
entry should be destroyed otherwise this warning appears:

WARNING: at fs/sysfs/dir.c:451 sysfs_add_one+0x82/0x95()
sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename '/devices/virtual/block/loop0/loop'

Fixes commit ee86273062cbb310665fe49e1f1937d2cf85b0b9

Signed-off-by: Milan Broz &lt;mbroz@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jaxboe@fusionio.com&gt;
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In autoclear mode bdev is NULL but the sysfs
entry should be destroyed otherwise this warning appears:

WARNING: at fs/sysfs/dir.c:451 sysfs_add_one+0x82/0x95()
sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename '/devices/virtual/block/loop0/loop'

Fixes commit ee86273062cbb310665fe49e1f1937d2cf85b0b9

Signed-off-by: Milan Broz &lt;mbroz@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jaxboe@fusionio.com&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: strictly nested kmap_atomic()</title>
<updated>2010-10-26T23:52:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl</email>
</author>
<published>2010-10-26T21:21:47+00:00</published>
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Ensure kmap_atomic() usage is strictly nested

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@tilera.com&gt;
Cc: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;rmk@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: David Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Ensure kmap_atomic() usage is strictly nested

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@tilera.com&gt;
Cc: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;rmk@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: David Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-2.6.37/barrier' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block</title>
<updated>2010-10-23T00:07:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2010-10-23T00:07:18+00:00</published>
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* 'for-2.6.37/barrier' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (46 commits)
  xen-blkfront: disable barrier/flush write support
  Added blk-lib.c and blk-barrier.c was renamed to blk-flush.c
  block: remove BLKDEV_IFL_WAIT
  aic7xxx_old: removed unused 'req' variable
  block: remove the BH_Eopnotsupp flag
  block: remove the BLKDEV_IFL_BARRIER flag
  block: remove the WRITE_BARRIER flag
  swap: do not send discards as barriers
  fat: do not send discards as barriers
  ext4: do not send discards as barriers
  jbd2: replace barriers with explicit flush / FUA usage
  jbd2: Modify ASYNC_COMMIT code to not rely on queue draining on barrier
  jbd: replace barriers with explicit flush / FUA usage
  nilfs2: replace barriers with explicit flush / FUA usage
  reiserfs: replace barriers with explicit flush / FUA usage
  gfs2: replace barriers with explicit flush / FUA usage
  btrfs: replace barriers with explicit flush / FUA usage
  xfs: replace barriers with explicit flush / FUA usage
  block: pass gfp_mask and flags to sb_issue_discard
  dm: convey that all flushes are processed as empty
  ...
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* 'for-2.6.37/barrier' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (46 commits)
  xen-blkfront: disable barrier/flush write support
  Added blk-lib.c and blk-barrier.c was renamed to blk-flush.c
  block: remove BLKDEV_IFL_WAIT
  aic7xxx_old: removed unused 'req' variable
  block: remove the BH_Eopnotsupp flag
  block: remove the BLKDEV_IFL_BARRIER flag
  block: remove the WRITE_BARRIER flag
  swap: do not send discards as barriers
  fat: do not send discards as barriers
  ext4: do not send discards as barriers
  jbd2: replace barriers with explicit flush / FUA usage
  jbd2: Modify ASYNC_COMMIT code to not rely on queue draining on barrier
  jbd: replace barriers with explicit flush / FUA usage
  nilfs2: replace barriers with explicit flush / FUA usage
  reiserfs: replace barriers with explicit flush / FUA usage
  gfs2: replace barriers with explicit flush / FUA usage
  btrfs: replace barriers with explicit flush / FUA usage
  xfs: replace barriers with explicit flush / FUA usage
  block: pass gfp_mask and flags to sb_issue_discard
  dm: convey that all flushes are processed as empty
  ...
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